Greetings, We have a customer that has Internet access through SBC. They lost their connection yesterday morning and are about ready to go out of business. We got additional fiber to their location and are now trying to announce their prefixes to Sprint. Of course they don't belong to us and wondering what I have to do to prove it is a legit request. A contact off list would be greatly appreciated. tlc Todd Christell Network Manager SpringNet www.springnet.net 417.831.8688 Key fingerprint = 4F26 A0B4 5AAD 7FCA 48DD 7F40 A57E 9235 5202 D508
We have a customer that has Internet access through SBC. They lost their connection yesterday morning and are about ready to go out of business. We got additional fiber to their location and are now trying to announce their prefixes to Sprint. Of course they don't belong to us and wondering what I have to do to prove it is a legit request.
sprintlink does not prefix filter, they only as-path filter randy
On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Randy Bush wrote:
We have a customer that has Internet access through SBC. They lost their connection yesterday morning and are about ready to go out of business. We got additional fiber to their location and are now trying to announce their prefixes to Sprint. Of course they don't belong to us and wondering what I have to do to prove it is a legit request.
sprintlink does not prefix filter, they only as-path filter
From personal experience with multiple Sprintlink customers' BGP, that's not true for all Sprintlink customers.
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Randy Bush wrote: sprintlink does not prefix filter, they only as-path filter From personal experience with multiple Sprintlink customers' BGP, that's not true for all Sprintlink customers.
i should also have said that my knowledge was old. i could have better said "my memory is that sprintlink used not to ..." your note that they prefix filter some customers might indicate a change in sprintlink policy or config automation, or could it be a custom hack to defend the commons from a few specific poorly behaved customers? randy
On Sat, 13 Nov 2004, Randy Bush wrote:
your note that they prefix filter some customers might indicate a change in sprintlink policy or config automation, or could it be a custom hack to defend the commons from a few specific poorly behaved customers?
Perhaps someone from Sprint can tell us, but I suspect it's just a change in policy at least several years ago. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Jon Lewis | I route Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are Atlantic Net | _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________
I'm a Sprint customer going on 10 years now. I have always had good luck e-mailing their BGP4 admin address. Check out the website but I think it is bgp4-admin@sprint.net. They normally respond in an hour or less. I'm sure if you e-mail the BGP group they will add the new AS to your as-path filter list. Either that or just announce their IPs under your AS. -Matt On Nov 12, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Todd Christell wrote:
Greetings,
We have a customer that has Internet access through SBC. They lost their connection yesterday morning and are about ready to go out of business. We got additional fiber to their location and are now trying to announce their prefixes to Sprint. Of course they don't belong to us and wondering what I have to do to prove it is a legit request.
A contact off list would be greatly appreciated.
tlc
Todd Christell Network Manager SpringNet www.springnet.net 417.831.8688 Key fingerprint = 4F26 A0B4 5AAD 7FCA 48DD 7F40 A57E 9235 5202 D508
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